Episode 2: Picturing Ourselves

How did the issue of whether to represent women’s bodies become so controversial that feminists would have physical fights about it? And how did the creative experiments of artists who chose to represent themselves complicate how we understand identity, being, thinking, feeling and healing? 

Amy Tobin explores interviews in the Feminist Art Making Histories archive that discuss the representation of women. Hear about work that was variously full of anger, pride, defiance, curiosity, excitement, joy, hilarity, sensuality – never puritanical. 

Amy is a professor based in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a curator at the University’s modern and contemporary art gallery, Kettle’s Yard.  She’s also one of the researchers on the Feminist Art Making Histories team. 

Featuring edited clips from interviews with Alice Maher, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Sonia Boyce, Rose English, Vivienne Dick, Terry Wragg, Rosy Martin, Penny Slinger, Pauline Cummins and three former members of See Red Women’s Workshop: Pru Stevenson, Suzy Mackie and Anne Robinson. 

 

Produced by Rosie Oliver – www.rosieoliver.co.uk  

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Find out about the Feminist Art Making Histories project via www.famh.art   

Explore the Feminist Art Making Histories archive via the Digital Repository of Ireland https://repository.dri.ie/objects/4742q334c/doi/4742q334c